#11420: Test suite and default encoding on Windows
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Reporter: richardb | Owner: nobody
Status: closed | Milestone:
Component: Testing framework | Version: SVN
Resolution: wontfix | Keywords:
BrokenUnicodeMethod
Stage: Design decision needed | Has_patch: 1
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Changes (by kmtracey):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
I don't know if it's common practice, but if it is, it should be
discouraged. It certainly cannot be common practice for anyone writing
code intended to be re-usable. Unfortunately mention of how to do it in a
popular book may have lured people into using a technique that is a really
bad idea. It may be tempting to change the default encoding to one where
you'll never get UnicodeXXcodeErrors, but you are swapping nice obvious
hard failures for the possibility of silently corrupted data. And you are
making your code non-portable. Some Googling around brings up:
http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/syssetdefaultencoding-is-evil/
http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2005/08/02/0
which make for good reading on the issue.
With Malcolm's -1 and my own feeling that it would be a bad idea to make
the test suite hide this, I'm going to close this wontfix.
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